Hi I have a net5501 with a 40G laptop drive in it it runs freebsd and the base OS is a broadband router and firewall It also has two jails running. One is my web server and the other my mail server. Both are pretty low volume. It sits on the end of a domestic cable internet service and I use dynamic dns on it. Both the net5501 and the cable modem are powered by an old 12V car battery so I'm fairly immune to power cuts.
I also have an old desktop with debian which I use a samba file server. This makes too much noise and heat and generally upsets my wife, so I have been recycling an old Epia 5000 board in a new case with a 1T sata drive. I have to boot it from CF (using an IDE2CF adaptor) because it wouldn't boot from the sata. It is wonderfully quiet and I suspect (hope) that the 1T drive is actually asleep most of the time. This is making me wonder. Should I be booting the net5501 from CF as well and mounting the HD as a data store rather than actually running the OS on it? Will it make it more reliable? I have had a few servers fail over the years and it's usually the HD that goes. I wouldn't be able to fit everything onto a CF card, the mail server in particular is too big and so would have to stay on the HD. thanks, Philip _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
